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Sid and Nancy is a 1986 biographical, musical and drama film directed and written by Alex Cox. Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb and David Hayman star, with Roger Deakins as director of photography, Eric Fellner as producer, and a score by Joe Strummer. Its main subject is heroin and substance abuse, and the story is set in London, though filming also took place in New Jersey.
A co-production of the United Kingdom and the United States, made on a budget of 4,000,000, the film earned a box office of 2,800,000 and was distributed by Samuel Goldwyn and Netflix. An accompanying soundtrack album, Sid & Nancy: Love Kills, was also released in 1986.
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6.7January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious is forced by his band mates to travel without his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, who will meet him in New York. When the band breaks up and Sid begins his solo career in a hostile city, the turbulent couple definitely falls into the depths of drug addiction.
Cast
- Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious
- Chloe Webb as Nancy Spungen
- David Hayman as Malcolm McLaren
- Debby Bishop as Phoebe
- Andrew Schofield as Johnny Rotten
- Xander Berkeley as Bowery Snax
Themes
- 1970s
- drug addiction
- punk rock
- based on true story
- sex pistols
- co-workers relationship
- punk band
- sid vicious
- music tour
- music manager
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Ratings
IMDb
7/10
36,020 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
87%
Metacritic
76/100
- Year
- 1986
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Genres
- Biography, Drama, Music
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award4 wins & 2 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Alex Cox
- Written by
- Alex Cox Abbe Wool
- Produced by
- Eric Fellner
- Starring
- Gary Oldman Chloe Webb
- Cinematography
- Roger Deakins
- Edited by
- David Martin
- Music by
- Joe Strummer Pray for Rain The Pogues
- Production companies
- Embassy Home Entertainment Initial Pictures U.K. Productions Entity Zenith Entertainment
- Distributed by
- Palace Pictures
- Release dates
- May 1986 ( 1986-05 ) ( Cannes ) 12 September 1986 ( 1986-09-12 ) ( TIFF ) 7 November 1986 ( 1986-11-07 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 114 minutes
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $4 million
- Box office
- $2.8 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- non-controlled substance abuse
- Director
- Alex Cox
- Screenwriter
- Alex Cox
- Cast member
- Julie St. Claire
- Composer
- Joe Strummer
- Producer
- Eric Fellner
- Cinematographer
- Roger Deakins
- Narrative location
- London
- Filming location
- New Jersey
- Duration
- 114
- FilmAffinity ID
- 595099
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Sid Vicious.jpg
Show 6 more facts
- publication date
- 1986-11-07
- title
- Sid and Nancy
- distributed by
- Netflix
- review score
- 7.4/10
- capital cost
- 4000000
- box office
- 2800000
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